not like 2004

[ron_newman]

It was so quiet in Davis Square after the Sox won Game 7 tonight. Lots of blue wooden horses sitting around "just in case", a bunch of police cars, but hardly any revelers. Nothing like this scene in 2004.

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[ifotismeni]

i heard a little bit of noise from chester street but it was pretty scattered.
i wasn't here for 2004 -- i was at umass amherst -- so i was thinking it'd be something similar here (overturned cars, flaming trash cans, etc)

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

It's a little different in Amherst. My stepmother taught there in the '80s and remembers sports games triggered a race riot.

[ceo]

I was there for that one, after the Sox lost the 1986 World series to the Mets. Didn't see the actual riot, which was at the other end of campus, and according to friends who witnessed it, was Sox fans vs. Mets fans and had nothing to do with race.

[amethystmoon.livejournal.com]

oh, I miss the Southwest UMass riots... There weren't any my freshman year, but then the Pats won the superbowl, and it triggered probably a half dozen in the next few years of the Red Sox both winning and losing various things. There was the one that migrated to Northeast when the police (rather foolishly) herded everyone out the same entrance/exit to Southwest. Then there was the worst I ever saw - not even on-campus, and not at all sports-related: the Hobart Hoedown riot of 2003. Oh, and you can't forget the mass destruction of Butterfield in response to the tightening of various dorm rules. Ah, those were the days.

Actually, come to think of it, I probably prefer that my tax dollars don't go to controlling and fixing the messes of UMass riots...